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One year later members of the BOU founded a (Quarterly) "Magazine of General Ornithology," entitled The Ibis.

"[5] A year later, in what was called "the annual assemblage" of November 1858, it was determined, after due consideration, "by those present that a Quarterly Magazine of General Ornithology should be established, that a limited subscription should be entered into to provide a fund for that purpose, and that the subscribers should form an 'Ornithological Union'.

[6] In the first eighty years of its existence, a very large part of the contents of The Ibis was devoted to what is called "geographical ornithology", "the study of the birds of the different countries of the world" in the words of P.L.

[12] Sclater had given the start to this important trend in scientific ornithology in his 1858 article in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, entitled "On the Geographic Distribution of the Members of the Class Aves".